Create the xwiki user

• This is OS-dependent. Use your favorite tool to create an OS-level user named xwiki
• Set xwiki's password to xwiki

Create the xwiki database

• First make sure your database instance width matches the JVM. If you have a 32-bit JVM you need a 32-bit instance. 64-bit JVM requires a 64-bit instance. If they don't match, you will get an UnsatisfiedLinkError when first connecting to XWiki.
• Open a DB2 Command Line Processor, either via typing db2 or on Windows by navigating to Start > All Programs > IBM DB2 > Command Line Tools > Command Line Processor. This will give you a command prompt db2 =>.
• Create a database with the following code: db2 => create database xwiki
• Connect to the database to continue the configuration: db2 => connect to xwiki
• Create a 32K bufferpool and tablespace (this is required because of the length of the rows in a couple of the XWiki tables):
  db2 => create bufferpool BFP32K immediate size 1024 pagesize 32k
  db2 => create regular tablespace TSXWIKI pagesize 32k managed by system using ('/some/directory/cntr_xwiki') bufferpool BFP32K
• Grant privileges to the xwiki user:
  db2 => grant connect, createtab, implicit_schema on database to user xwiki
  db2 => grant use of tablespace TSXWIKI to user XWIKI
• Reset connections and quit:
  db2 => connect reset
  db2 => quit

XWiki configuration

• Ensure $INSTHOME/sqllib/lib is in your library path. This is something like $LIBPATH, depending on your OS.
• Copy the following files from your DB2 installation directory to the xwiki lib directory:
  • $INSTHOME/sqllib/java/db2jcc.jar
  • $INSTHOME/sqllib/java/db2jcc_license_cu.jar
• Configure XWiki to use DB2. To do this, edit the WEB-INF/hibernate.cfg.xml file where you have expanded the XWiki WAR file. Replace the matching properties with the following ones (or uncomment them if they are present):
  <property name="connection.url">jdbc:db2:xwiki</property>
  <property name="connection.username">xwiki</property>
  <property name="connection.password">xwiki</property>
  <property name="connection.driver_class">com.ibm.db2.jcc.DB2Driver</property>
  <property name="dialect">org.hibernate.dialect.DB2Dialect</property>
  <property name="connection.pool_size">2</property>
  <property name="statement_cache.size">2</property>
  
  <mapping resource="xwiki.db2.hbm.xml"/>
  <mapping resource="feeds.hbm.xml"/>

Make search case-insensitive

If you try to do a search via WebSearch you will get a big DB2 SQLException with SQLCODE: -440. This is caused because the UPPER() function only works for columns with 250 bytes of data or so in it. Since XWiki calls UPPER() for an entire CLOB column, this just doesn't work. The only solution I found is to remove all the calls to UPPER() in WebSearch. Alternatively, you may want to examine the Lucene search application.